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Open Libraries
The Internet Archive’s Open Libraries
project aims to bring four million books
online, through purchase or digitization,
while honoring the rights of creators and
expanding their online reach via
controlled digital lending. Working with
US libraries and organizations serving
people with print disabilities, Open
Libraries seeks to build the online
equivalent of a great, modern public
library, providing millions of free digital
books to billions of people.
Updates:
● $1M grant from Arcadia Fund to digitize university press
collections, including those from MIT Press, Cornell University
Press, and other academic publishers
● More than 650,000 volumes available for controlled digital
lending at https://archive.org/details/inlibrary
● Libraries signing up for controlled digital lending
Key Forward looking priorities:
● SimplyE integration
● Statement on Controlled Digital Lending by Libraries & white
paper authored by scholarly communications community
● More books into lending through donation & digitization (library
weeding projects, booksellers)
● More library partners
Contact: Chris Freeland, chrisfreeland@archive.org